House of Mirrors

<b>The Nashville psych rockers reflect a wide array of retro influences.</b> The title of All Them Witches’ seventh album couldn’t be more appropriate, as the songs within seem to reflect so many of their retro influences. The Nashville psych rockers might be the only stoner-type band that doesn’t listen to Black Sabbath, but their brand of swampy dirge blues manages to incorporate the Allmans, the Doors and the Dead in equal measure. Opening with a heavy six-and-a-half-minute version of the Appalachian folk tune <b>“Red Rocking Chair”</b> that somehow sounds like Blue Cheer <i>and</i> Dead Moon, ATW let you know, right off the bat, that they’re going back in time. <b>“Starting Line”</b> employs a soft/loud dynamic that manages to entwine the acoustic flair of English blues rock eccentrics The Groundhogs with the lurching organ doom of Deep Purple. The dramatic and folksy <b>“The Welterweight”</b> isn’t so much about a boxer as it is about underdogs who punch above their weight and end up on the mat. The trick, ATW seem to be saying, is to get up and fight another day.